Life-story of Rev. Davis Wasgatt Clark, D. D.: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchNelson & Phillips, 1874 - 336 стор. |
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Сторінка 79 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys.
Сторінка 79 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast.
Сторінка 310 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Сторінка 159 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Сторінка 159 - THE fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity : there is none that doeth good. 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. 3 Every one of them is gone back : they are altogether become filthy ; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Сторінка 81 - Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on His breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.
Сторінка 124 - Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, Who stand upon the threshold of the new.
Сторінка 125 - I can now contemplate clearly the grand scene to which I am going." Sargent, the biographer of Martin, with his countenance kindled into a holy fervour, and his eye beaming with unearthly lustre, fixed his gaze as upon a definite object, and exclaimed, " That bright light !" and when asked what light, answered, " The light of the Sun of righteousness." The Lady Elizabeth Hastings, a little before she expired, cried out, with a beaming countenance and enraptured voice, " Lord, what is it that I see...
Сторінка 125 - She was the absorbing idea of his life. In most affecting terms he would mourn her absence, and chide her long delay. Thus life wore away; and when its ebbing tide was almost exhausted, starting as from a reverie, the countenance of the dying man was overspread with sudden joy, and stretching forth his arms, as if he would clasp some object before him, he uttered the name of his long-lost love, and exclaiming, "Ah, there thou art at last!
Сторінка 331 - ... one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the Church of God ?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.